(2014-03-10) True Detective - Nail Biting Season 1 Finale

TRUE DETECTIVE: Nail Biting
Season 1 Finale
March 10, 2014
True Detective's Season 1 Finale was a
nail biting episode. As the background of
a marginalized Louisiana emerged along
the bayou, the sacrificial landscape arose
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from within it and from its guts to show
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those left behind entangled in twisted
conceptions and adorations from the
depths of the darkest places of human
believe and unfortunate possibility.
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Rustin Cohle (Matthew McConaughey)
and Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson),
broken and faulted heroes in this
entanglement, reach beyond to discover
the mystery, finding a world that exists
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born from the leftovers of the human soul.
Shaken to their very core, they pull
through with disbelieve to question their
life resolutions, if any, and perceived
conceptualizations.
Matthew McConaughey and Woody
Harelson bounce from each other in this
hate-love relationship of broken men that
exceed their capabilities because of their
own limitations and wounds. They bring
alive this disturbing world until it
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regurgitates the thought of it being real by
some disgrace of creation. The buzz is
that an Emmy might be following
Matthew McConaughey's Oscar and it
is not hard to see why. It is a rare instance where two actors like Woody Harrelson and
Mathew McConaughey come together to bring alive an erie quasi fable that makes your
skin crawl just because of what is understood and imagined rather than the crudely
evident. They work from and with each other with the comfort of a perfect old glove that
accommodates every finger of your hand as a second skin only can.
A healthily intellectual script in the best of ways -- a fortunate rarity -- characters'
discussions range from regular ordinate conversation to philosophical exchanges between
the battered and broken who keep on going as they hold on to whatever wholeness is left
within them.
It is stomach-turning to visualize the fathomage of this twisted tale: 'You know what they
did to me? What I will do to all the sons and daughters of man...Come die with me little
prince.' And even though the broken heroes survive and the story may have reached some
kind of resolution, the knot in the stomach remains after evidencing the profound darkness
that could be reached...
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